What a crazy day. As you know, I booked my flight yesterday and used my business cc to do so (the gal who's paying for the trip had already given me a check for the flight). Today I get a message to call Continental immediately as they haven't been able to process the reservation. I call - they tell me the card was declined. I tell them not possible. They don't care. I give them my other card, which I DON'T like to use for business things - that one is fine. I then call my bank - they've now put a hold on my business card. Why? Because Continental was having problems with their network and didn't see that the card had been approved on the first try and so they kept trying to put the charge through multiple times - which, of course, sends up an immediate red flag with the bankcard service and they immediately put a hold on the card. I had to spend twenty minutes getting the hold removed (they take a LOT of precautions, which is a good thing) - but I just want to call Continental and tell them what peckerwoods they are for doing that and then acting like it's MY fault.
